Tbe Theater ofTlants. 
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4 . Ofyru five Linaria alba . 
White flowed Flaxeweede. 
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nany branches, whereon arc fet fometimes two and fometimes three leaves together, on a fmall footeflalke, on 
■ach fide of them, fometimes one againft another, and other times keeping no order, each whereof is larger 
md longer then the former, and of agrayifir greene colour, with three veines orribbes in every one of them: ac 
he tops of the branches grow flowers,made for the forme like the other kinds, but 0 f a differing colour, for the 
:i japing mouth is ofa pale blew colour, and more yellow underneath, with a pale or blewifh, and lometimes 
■ norc purplifh fpurre behind,the heads and feede are like the wild kinde; the roote is hard and white, bi"ger at 
1 the head and Imall below with fome fibres thereat. ab 
3 . Linaria Americana parvofiore . The yellow Flaxeweede of America.. 
! This Indian kinde (hooteth forth divers (lender fmallreddilh flalkes, fpread into many branches, whereon 
| jrow on both Tides of them, yet without order, many darke greene leaves, much narrower but not much Ihor- 
::er then the former, ending alfo in a (harpe point; the flowers 
'grow ac the toppes of the flalkes, in the fame manner that the 
(common wilde kinde doth, and of a gold yellow colour, but 
(.much lefier then they. 
4. Linaria JiveOfyrjs alba. 
Whiteflowred Flaxeweede. -Mi 
The white Flaxeweede rifeth up with many tough pliant -j?I| 
Halkes with long narrow leaves fet thereon, fomewha; like ^ 
tthofe of the common fort, atthetoppes whereof (land fundry 
I pale whitifh flowers refembling the ordinary kinde, butwitha f :|| 
wider and more open month: the leede is not unlike the other, . 5 S|! 
the rootes are white, long, thicke and great, abiding divers. 
iyearcs and not perifliing. 
5. Linaria triphyllacarnlea Apula. 
The blew Flaxeweede of 1'faples. 
I This blew flaxeweede of hath at the Joynts of the 
Iwhite flalkes which are fometimes but one, and fometimes 
more, three leaves fet together, divided almoft like Rue leaves 
but greater, deeper cut in, and pointed at the ends, of a gray 
ifh greene or alh-colour ; the toppe of the flalkes are furnifhed 
with fuch like flowers, but fmafler and ofa blew colour whol¬ 
ly, except the mouth which is yellow, after which come finall 
roundheads, conteining large flat and blackilh feed, the roote 
is fmall and white. 
The Place. V’ 
The firft according to the title yon may know came from , 
Dalmatia, but from what place there, is not fignified. The fe- '' 
cond from Candy. The third from America. The fourth, in gar¬ 
dens : the laft from Naples, 
TheTime, ^ 
They doc all flower in the Sommer moneths,yet fome fooner 
or later then others, for thofe of America flowreth very late, 
and fcarfe give ripe feede any yeare. js 
The Names. 
It hath no Greeke name that I can finde mentioned by any ^ 
author, but in Latine iris called P feudo Linum, and Linaria, fb r therefemblarce that the leaves of the wildc 
common kinde have with Line or Flaxe, and Vrirnti, and Vrinaria from the effects. Some have called it Efula 
«Mter,na, tor the refemblance it hath with the little Efula ■ whereupon came this verfe, EfulalaBefcit Hve 
■j Unarm crefctt Divers have taken It to be the Antirrhinum of P lmy i it may be O/yrj, both of Pliny, Diofce. 
rides, and whereunto m mod mens judgements it doth in many things agree; and fome as t Matthlolus 
faith, woujd make Belvtdere to be Ofyris, which is called by fome Herba fluchoforum the Schollers herbe hut 
becaufe they make their Ofyru to have foure or five leaves onely on the flalkes, and that they fave for broimes 
to (weepe withall; forthe Greeke word as fome copies have it is falfe,) doth as well 
ligmhe/wpw broomes as Cofmetica, fuch things as beautifie the skin,! cannot fee well how it fliould agree there- 
rniro: the Itahans and Spaniards call it Unaria.the French Lin Sauvaec, the Germanes Lin kraut,Horn kraut, and 
F.achs kraut. The Dutch mltVlas. In Englifh we call it Wildcflaxe, Todeflaxe.and Flaxeweede. Bauhinus in 
„ y° dr ° mM maketh mention of the third.but calleth it lumfelfe in his P rodromm and Pmax Linaria DtifoLa tri. 
f'7 ut ref irreth the fecond tothc Cretica Latifoliaof (fluflus. The fourth is called Ofyru alba by LA el m 
his Dutch Hcrbalh The lafl Fabim Cobtmna mentioned. } y in 
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Lilian it ei ache anouJUfoUsf Vprighc and narrow leafed Flaxe weedes. 
I. Lina'iavulgarisnojlras. Our common wilde Flaxeweede. 
£”\Vr common Flaxeweede that groweth wild in all countries ofthis Land as well as beyond Sea, is fo well 
. , nownenntoallthatareneverfolittle converfant in herbes, that it were almofl needelefie to deferibe it 
v tvers flalkes, full fraught with long and narrow, blew or afhcoloured leaves; and from the middle of 
Swmnl U ^tnaw ft t r m fl W 1 r ha " m . nber of Pal'yeUowflowers, ofa ftrong unpleafant fenr, with deeper 
■ uthes, «nd blakilb flat.feedes in round heads, the roote is fomewhat wooddy and white, efpccially 
ibot.t, ?nd3Sto^^ yfibre% abidi ^ man 5' > Xarcs ' “S f ^ th =very way round 
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